Security readout for executives and security teams
This vulnerability lets a user inside a guest virtual machine crash or disrupt the VMware VMX process by using an invalid port. The business impact is availability loss for affected virtual machines, not documented data theft or host takeover in the provided sources. Exposure is most relevant where legacy VMware desktop or ESX/ESXi versions are still running and guest OS users are untrusted or numerous. Modern, fully upgraded VMware estates are less likely to be exposed, but the source bundle does not enumerate all fixed ESX/ESXi builds. Prioritize remediation for legacy VMware hosts supporting important workloads or untrusted guest users. This is an availability risk rather than a confirmed compromise path, but outages in virtualization infrastructure can still affect multiple business services. Mitigation focus: Inventory VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, ESXi, and ESX versions.; Upgrade Workstation to 9.0.1 or later where still used.; Upgrade Player or Fusion to 5.0.1 or later where still used..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- vmware-esx-cve20141208-dos(90558)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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